Senior care assistant jobs in Manchester

Skills for Care recorded 500 filled senior care worker posts in Manchester in 2024/25, out of 500 senior care worker posts in total. That is a 1.6% vacancy rate for the senior care worker role in Manchester.

The senior care worker role is 4.2% of the 12,000 filled adult social care posts in Manchester. Turnover in the senior care worker role in Manchester ran at 5.4%. New starters were 8.2% of senior care worker posts in Manchester over the year.

On filled senior care worker posts, Manchester ranks 6th of the 24 North West areas that Skills for Care publishes. The middle of the North West sits at 312.5 filled senior care worker posts, against 500 in Manchester. Across the 152 published England areas the middle is 375.

For the shape of the rest of the Manchester workforce, the same release records 6,000 filled care worker posts, 25 filled deputy manager posts and 175 filled registered manager posts.

Reported median pay in Manchester was £12.77 an hour for the senior care worker role and about £24,600 a year full time. Skills for Care collects that from local authority and independent sector employers in Manchester only, so it leaves out people employed directly by someone receiving a direct payment.

Full-time workers in Manchester earn a median of £40,479 a year, counting every occupation in the area together. Skills for Care puts full-time adult social care pay in Manchester at £26,500, £13,979 below it.